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Researchers made small tweaks to the molecular structure of LSD to see if it could be turned into an effective brain-healing ...

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A new Salk Institute study suggests that estrogen-related receptors could be a key to repairing energy metabolism and muscle ...

Researchers observe how fluctuations in ovarian hormones shape the structure and function in the mouse hippocampus, with ...

Neurotransmitters are a group of chemical substances that transmit information between ... The activation of inflammatory signaling pathways, such as Toll-like receptors and NF-κB, stimulates immune ...

Figure 1.1 Structure of the systematic review that guided this guideline ... Sex hormones (estrogens, androgens, and progesterone), through their receptors present in the entire female body, act and ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, except for skin cancers. It accounts for about 30% (or 1 in 3) of all new female cancers each year. The American Cancer Society's ...